Forging ahead with its new three-year business plan, Chugai Pharmaceutical enjoyed rosy earnings in the first half of 2019, bolstered by the outperformance of the Hemlibra (emicizumab) hemophilia drug and its I/O star Tecentriq (atezolizumab). But with a biosimilar onslaught…
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Think Tank Urges Govt to Look at Drugs with Large Prescription Volumes Too
The Institute for New Era Strategy (INES), a think tank headed by former Pfizer Japan President Ichiro Umeda, unveiled a list of proposals on January 23 calling for more focus on low-cost drugs that are prescribed in large volumes, rather…
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